// Create a jquery plugin that prints the given element.
jQuery.fn.print = function(){
    // NOTE: We are trimming the jQuery collection down to the
    // first element in the collection.
    if (this.size() > 1){
        this.eq( 0 ).print();
        return;
    } else if (!this.size()){
        return;
    }
 
    // ASSERT: At this point, we know that the current jQuery
    // collection (as defined by THIS), contains only one
    // printable element.
 
    // Create a random name for the print frame.
    var strFrameName = ("printer-" + (new Date()).getTime());
 
    // Create an iFrame with the new name.
    var jFrame = $( "<iframe name='" + strFrameName + "'>" );
 
    // Hide the frame (sort of) and attach to the body.
    jFrame
        .css( "width", "1px" )
        .css( "height", "1px" )
        .css( "position", "absolute" )
        .css( "left", "-9999px" )
        .appendTo( $( "body:first" ) )
    ;
 
    // Get a FRAMES reference to the new frame.
    var objFrame = window.frames[ strFrameName ];
 
    // Get a reference to the DOM in the new frame.
    var objDoc = objFrame.document;
 
    // Grab all the style tags and copy to the new
    // document so that we capture look and feel of
    // the current document.
 
    // Create a temp document DIV to hold the style tags.
    // This is the only way I could find to get the style
    // tags into IE.
    var jStyleDiv = $( "<div>" ).append(
        $( "style" ).clone()
        );
 
    // Write the HTML for the document. In this, we will
    // write out the HTML of the current element.
    objDoc.open();
    objDoc.write( "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">" );
    objDoc.write( "<html>" );
    objDoc.write( "<body>" );
    objDoc.write( "<head>" );
    objDoc.write( "<title>" );
    objDoc.write( document.title );
    objDoc.write( "</title>" );
    objDoc.write( jStyleDiv.html() );
    objDoc.write( "</head>" );
    objDoc.write( this.html() );
    objDoc.write( "</body>" );
    objDoc.write( "</html>" );
    objDoc.close();
 
    // Print the document.
    objFrame.focus();
    objFrame.print();
 
    // Have the frame remove itself in about a minute so that
    // we don't build up too many of these frames.
    setTimeout(
        function(){
            jFrame.remove();
        },
        (60 * 1000)
        );
}